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- It's very common that the first lens…that a landscape or architectural photographer…gets to play with that really blows their mind…is a wide-angle lens, and I totally agree.…The first time I looked through one, I couldn't believe it.…But the key is that we don't want to just point at the world…and see everything at wide-angle and snap away.…There are some real strategies…and tools we want to embrace, and I'm hoping…that throughout this course you're able…to really focus on those things,…like picking a very strong foreground,…having a relationship between the foreground…and the background, and really establishing depth…and a clear path throughout.…

I really want you to think about what's in the frame.…Is everything in there necessary?…Does this grand landscape work?…Is there something in there distracting?…Maybe I need to use a different lens.…So the wide-angle lens, on the one hand,…is this see-all, amazing perspective lens.…On the other hand, it's something…that takes skill to use properly.…You're also going to get things like distortion,…

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2/12/2016

Explore the creative options that wide-angle lenses provide in landscape photography. This targeted group of photography tips is for anyone who is interested in establishing greater depth, shooting panoramas, shooting landscapes at night, or introducing intentional distortion with wide-angle lenses. Justin Reznick provides simple guidelines for more effective images, and helps photographers find new uses for this great piece of gear.